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Cops Questioning Suspects in Deaths of City Women Found in Forest Preserve

By DNAinfo Staff on September 23, 2013 5:08pm

  The Cook County Sheriff's Office said the women found burned and strangled were a mother and daughter.  (File Photo)
The Cook County Sheriff's Office said the women found burned and strangled were a mother and daughter.  (File Photo)
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CHICAGO — Two suspects are being questioned in connection with the killing of a Chicago mother and her daughter whose bodies were found strangled and burned in the Cook County Forest Preserve, authorities said.

The women, were found in the trunk of PT Cruiser in the Cap Sauers Holdings Forest Preserve in Palos Park at about 11:45 p.m. Saturday, according to the Cook County Sheriff's Office.

A sheriff's office spokesman said one woman was in her 70s, and the other in her 50s.

As of Monday afternoon, the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office hasn't released the names of the victims because family had yet to be notified.